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radianti oare- MTHUR T. SAVAGE AND HOVAREE MORRIS? 0F SAN DIEG, CALEFORNIA, ASSIGNORS T THE SAVAGE TERE CALIFORNIA.

COMPMTY, 0F SAN DIEGO, CALFORNI, A CORPORATION 0F TIRE- FNISHING STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3o, 11919.

.application tiled December 1, i916, Serial No. 134,482.

.To all wwm it' may concern.'

Be it known that we, ARTHUR JOHN Sev- Aos and Howann l'. Mouais., both citizens of the United States, residing at San Diego, in

the county of San Diego and State of Cali il? stands, and more particularly to tire finishing Stands in which a rotatable, driven work "^\l1olding inei'nber is employed in Itire-inalnng or tire-finishing and in which said member may be rotatably disposed nin any required plane, es it is sometimes desirable to change the plane ot' rotation of a tire during the manufacture thereof without removing the saine froinsa particular machine or stand.

The invention. has for its object to provide a stand ot' thisgeneral nature upon which a tire carcass or th like may be mounted and be rotated in a plurality ot' planes and in which shitting of the plane of rotatioi. may be readily accomplished by simply releasing or uiiclampiiig=a supporting member upon which the driven rotatable member is mounted and by simply manually forcing vthe rotatable member into the desired plane of rotation in which the supporting member may be secured or clamped until it desired to again change the plane of rotation ol the driven member, such change of 'plane of rotation being made without the necessity of cutting ott' the power employed to rotate the work holding driven member. A tire stand organized in accordance with the invention will rotatably support a. tire carcass oi' the like through the inediun'i of a chuck constituting the rotatable member and istandard core such as are ordinarily employed in die building ofrasings for pneumatic tires and iii position tor necessary tire-making tions, and through suitable transmission means power may be transmitted ii'oiii a source of energy to the chuck-to rotate lthe saine in a vertical plane or in a plane at any angle thereto; iurtheriiioic theparts shifted in shifting the work from one plane ot' rotation to anolheiare not cuiiibei'soiiie and therefore may be. readily shifted and the axis about which said shifting takes place preferor tire-finishing opei'a' ably bisects' the plane of rotation of the chuck as well as the axis of rotation thereof. The transmission preferably includes a rotatable gear wheel mounted to rotate about the axis about which the plane of work rotation is shifted and a transmission Shaft is preferably provided at one side of such axis and parallel thereto to transmit power from the gear to the rotatable member or chuck through suitable devices, the chuck-supportiiig shaft heilig preferably at right angles to the transmission shaft. A pinion is provided at one end of the transmission shaft, namely the end adjacent to the gear, and a further drive pinion is arranged to mesh with such gear. the gear being of sufiicient breadth ot' face to aia'oinuiodate the relatively narrow transmission shaft pinion at a portion of its fare and the relatively narrow drive pinion jat another portion ot' its face so that the transmission shaft with its pinion mounted iii a suitable chuck supporting frame, may be rotated about the gear, to the end that, such shaft and pinion may assure various positions of adjustment made necessary by the adjustment of the rotatable v being provided to that end'. A suitable mainframe to support the ti'aiisiiiissioii shaft and chuck carrying frame is provided and the iiiotoi the shatt,oiZ which carries a motor shaft pinion may he bolted oi' otherwise se cured to such frame in position to constantly maintain the motor shaft in mesh with the drive pinion. The gear may be directly mounted upon a portion of the chuck carrying trame lying in the axis about which the plane ot' chuck rotation is shifted and a further portion oi the chuck carrying frame may be suitably jouiiialed in the main frame aud likewise on the axis ot' rotation about which thel plane ot' chuck rotation is shifted. (damping means may be provided for maintaining the chuck carrying frame in any desired position of adjustment. Suitable clutch means may be provided 'for freeing; the chuck or its shaft trein the transmission shaft so' that the rotation of the chuck and the work carried thereby inay be interrupted at will.

A further object ot the invention is to provide a stand ot' the general character stated which will he relatively simple and inexpensive i'n construction and organization when its 'features of superiority in facility of adjustment and positiveness in action are considered, which will be long of lite and not liable to get out ot' order and which will be generally superior in efficiency and serviceability. j

lVith the above andl other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and useful provision, formation, combination and relative arrangement. of parts, members and features, all as hereinafter described,shown in the drawing, and finally pointed out in claims.

1n 'the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation ot a tire-finishing stand constructed and organized in ac cordance with the inif'ention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view ol the showing in 1; Fig. 3 shown in Figs. 1 and' 2 direction ot' the appended arrow near 1 and .Figa si is a fragmentary in section ci the clutch.

Corresponding partsl in all the figures are designated bythe same ret'erence characters. Reterrine;v` with particularity to the drawis an end view of the tire stand and looking in the 'Fig'.

detail view partly ting, in the embodiment ot the invention thereinl snown, Si designates a rotatable work holding chuck, B designates power 'transmission means, C designates a i rotatable support toi' said chuck A, D designates means for securing the rotatable support C in. any position or adjustment, E designates rneans "for operating .the chuck A, andiF designates a. supporting traine.

rThe rotatable chuck may be of any preferred Yform or construction and may comprise a plurality ot radial arms Llltroni each ot which may be projected a member 5 and such member 5 may be adapted for engagement with a standard core such as is usually employed iu tire carcass building, the outer end ot each ot such members 5 being.; pointed as at 5, The invention is not concerned with' the specitic means ot projecting thel members 5 tor engagement with the core, not shown, as any well known means may be employed for this purpose. The arms -1 all merge into a central hub ti tixcd to a short shalt T at one end ot such shaft. The

lother cnil ot' the shat't 7 is threaded as at 8 and provided with a wing' nut or the like l9, a friction cone l() being' secured to the shaft' tion as at 17 taking into the as at 11 at a point between the wing nut and the hub G ot the chuck A.. i

Ione 12 is slidably inounted on the shaft 7 and in position to be pressed inwardly by the wing nut 9 when the saine is'rotated about the shaft 7 in a direction to screw the saine tai-ther on the shaft. The trictioii concs 10 andv 12 face each other and confine between them a bevel gear ot which is bored to receive the shat't 7 and is toi-med at each side with a conicalaecess 15, the recesses 15 being formed one to match the cone 10 and the other to match the cone 12. By screwing or unscrewing the wing nut 9 the bevel gear.' may be clamped to theshaft or Y released trom the saine for independent r0- tation. ik bearing or journal box 16 is pro vided for the shaft. 7 between the hub t) of the chu-ck A and the friction cone 10 and such journal box 16 inay have a reduced porsupporting men'iber C. The power transmission means l preferably comprisesl a horizontal rotatable power transmission shaft 1S journalcd near itsl ends on the rotatable support C as at 19 and 2t), a bevel pinion Q1 tixedly mountedl on said shaft 18 and meshing with the bevel `ear 13, a spur pinion tixedly mounted on the end of the shaft 18 opposite the end at which the pinion 21 is mounted, an idler or intermediate gear :28 rotatably mounted on the support C, a drive pinion 24 mounted upon a fixed shaft 2lb and a motor pinion 24"'. The supporting means C preferably consists of a supporting arm 25 bored at one end as at 2G to receive the joui'- nal bearing 1T and journaled at its other end iu the main Ytraine lr as at 26. .'t nut and washer retaining device 27 is applied to the endet the arm Q5 where it extends1 through the main trame F, and a shoulder 2S is provided on the cylindrical journaled portion 26 of t-he arm the shoulder be ing' spaced from the main traine to properly alineand maintain the intermediate gear 23 in its plane ot rotation about' the cylindrical portion 26 o't' the arm The arm 25 is bentat the shoulder 28 to extend laterally ot' the cylindrical portion 26 as at 2f) and again bent to extend away from the cylindrical portion and parallelv to the axis thereof as at. 30 and'such arm is again curved inwardly as at 31 to hold the chuck A in a plane of rotation coinciding with the axis' ot the cylindrical portion 26 as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawine. The journal bearings 19 and Q0 for the transniission shaft 18 preterably project from the arm 25 to properly support the sha-ft, 18. The spur pinion, 22 on the shaft 18- isl provided with teeth .2'2 taking into teeth 23a provided on the intermediate gear 23 and i ljacent to one end of said teeth 23. the pinion havingr a smaller Jface than the gear 23. The teeth 21 ot further l 13 uw, hub ii able bore 26 provided in the main the drive pinion mesh With the testha of the intermediate gear 23 and only at the ends of the teeth 23 opposite the ends engaged b the 'pinion 22. The "upporting arm 25 eing rotatably .mounted in a suitthe arm is arranged to proiect horizontally from a boss 32 provided on said main trame F, the main frame F ranging downwardly and to a point beneath the chuck il.' as at 33, the same terminating in an enlarged flange 34 4having a flattened bottom tace 35 Whereby the entire tire finishing stand is supported from a suitable foundation or floor.

The clampingy means D preferably comprises a screw' shank 36 and operating handle 37 therefor, the screw shank'bein threaded as at'36a into' a threaded oritice t provided in the boss 32 so that upon rotation of the handle or lever 37 the threaded shank will be brought into engagement #ith the cylindrical portion 26 of the supporting arm i or member C when the lever 37 rotated in the proper direction. pposite rotation ot the lever 37 Will cause the screw to moved away from the cylindrical portion 2G and -free the same. The operating means E is shown as anelectric motor 38 secured to the portion 33 of the main frame l? as at 39, said motor having a shaft upon one end of which is fixed thev spur pinion 24. The motor is so arranged on the frame portion 33`that the pinion 24:C lies inthe proper plane to engage with the drive pinion which engages the teeth. the intermediate gear 23 in a plane other than the plane of rotation of the pinion 22.

iso

vwill be readily understood from the The operation, method of use :i

d advantages of the improved tire-finis .ing stand ing description taken in connection 'with he accompanying drawing and the following statement:

A tire carcass or the like (not shown) heing made or finished upon a suitable corev or the like (not shown) may he mounted for rotation upon the chuck A ley manipu" ing the expanding' means oi: such chuck to torce the members 5 into engagement with the core, and upon application of power to the deviceas by means of the operatingn means or motor E, the pinion 24 will he rotated and drive the intermediate gear 23 and through it the pinion 22 together with the transmission shaft 18 and the bevel pinion 2l, Power is`further transmitted through the hevcl pirion 21 and the bevel gear to the shat't T5 thus causing the rotation of the shalt i' and the chuck A mounted thereon, tog-c tlu with the core and tire which may he in pos on on 'the chuck A. Then it is desired to shift the plane of rotation of the chuck A and the tire carcass or the like carried thereby#all that is necessary is to 'release the supporting arm tion.

25 by manipulating the screw shaft 36 tti-rough its handle and simply rotate the Work carried thereby has been moved into the proper plane oi rotation, the screw shaft 36 may be rotated in the proper direction to clamp the parts in the newly assumed posi- After anyparticular operation has been performed on a tire carcass or the same has been linished, it may be removed from the stand, vtogether with its core, by contracting or. retracting the members 5 into the arms Je of ie chuckE ami another tire carcass with its core in y be positioned for rotation on the stand hy again expanding; the chuck the nicnibers i thereof". As the chuck is moved to a new L 1me of rotation as by-rotating' the supporting arm 30 about its axis,

4 the pinion 2' on the transmission shaft 18 carried by the arm 25 `will be rotated about the idler or intermediate gear 23 which is rotatably mounted on the cylindrical portion 2li of the arm 25 and confined between the shoulder 28 and the journal bearing 32, and a complete revolution oi the arm 28 about its axis may he made due to the relatively narrow face of the pinion 22 which permits the pinion 22 to pass the pinion 24, clearance being provided7 as between the pinion 22 and the pinion 2-l, to this end.

llo case it is desired to disconnect the power so that the chuck and the tire mounted thereon Sinai' be stopped or rotated manually instead o ioiver applied to the transhe wingA nut* 9 may be unheve" `:rear 13 released from tion cones l() and "2 i'iission screwed and to apply power to the chuck the saine and the Work carvhe ,l tick, the wing nut may be in the proper direction to tighten the cones l@ l2 and clamp the bevel rear between said cones to causethe ro-- tion el. the ift 7 with the same. lilavingf tin i. disclosed our invention, We claim and desire to secure hy Letters `Patent: t l; A device of 'the character described, ins cluding a support, a horisontal chuck carrying arm journaled upon the support and rotatable about a horizontal axis, a shafticarl hy ire'e end ol said arm and extendtransversely with respect thereto, said shaft being provided with a conical collar and a threaded end, a nut fitted upon the threaded end and having a conical face 125 nut, a chuck carried hy the transverse shaft, 130

and means coperating with the gear to diive the chuck at lall positionsof the chuck Carrying arm. v

2. A devise ot the character described, in-

lelndiijig` a supporting frame, a horizontally extending cliuek cniiying arm rotatable nhout n horizontal axis, u comparatively wide geni' wheel mounted concentric With ''lie axis of the chuck supporting erin, a drive pinion engaging the gem' wheel :it one end thereof, a second pinion carried by theehuek carrying zu'ni and engaging the gen1' wheel the opposite end thereof., the second pinion being mounted to remain in mesh with the gear Wheel at all positions of the chuck 15 4eainving arm, a chuck supported upon the chuck carrying arm, and a driving connection between the second pinion and the chuck.

In testimony whereof, We have Signed our 20 names to this Specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

I ARTHUR J. SAVAGE HOWARD L MORRS.

lilritnessef CHARLES SPERECKEL, M. MEABERY. 

